They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies…Now they’re coming for you.

In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication. In the months leading up to this, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans – a single mother disconcerted by her daughter’s menacing “smart” toys, a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion, an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a ‘pacification unit’ go haywire – but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is too late.

When the Robot War ignites -- at a moment known later as Zero Hour -- humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, united. Robopocalypse is a brilliantly conceived action-filled epic, a terrifying story with heart-stopping implications for the real technology all around us…and an entertaining and engaging thriller unlike anything else written in years.

Daniel H. Wilson earned a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Where's My Jetpack?, How to Build a Robot Army, The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame, Bro-Jitsu: The Martial Art of Sibling Smackdown, and A Boy and His Bot.

Strange Horizons

The Zone

Reviewed by Niall Alexander
on
Mar 21 2014

...with Robopocalypse, from its unsettling start straight through to its beautifully symmetrical conclusion, robotics doctorate Wilson is perfectly poised to remind readers what a truly thrilling prospect the end of the world as we know it is sure to be. Superb reading for a sunny summer at the edge of everything...

Rolling Hills Consolidated Library

National Post arts

Reviewed by ROBERT J. WIERSEMA
on
Jun 17 2011

Against all odds, it works. Robopocalypse more than satisfies at a fundamental, story-hungry level. I devoured the novel in a matter of hours; it was one of those books I couldn’t tear myself away from...

Working for the Mandroid

Zombie Parent's Guide

Reviewed by Joseph Reninger
on
Jan 21 2012

The story moves quickly and is an exciting read. Thematically it isn't too deep--the standard stuff about what it is to be human and can robots be human, etc., is presented but no new insights or ideas come up.